I shouldn't wade into this thread anyway, but here it goes.
Pride doesn't speak for me. Any LGBT organization I can think of does not speak for me. I am a gay man, out to everyone including my family (and those from Eastern European cultures will understand how hard that is), and I have absolutely no problem with my sexuality - never have, and I credit the atmosphere in Canada for that.
What I do have a problem with is this consistent victimization culture permeating from the left and LGBT communities. You cannot get rid of discrimination - people's personal biases will always be present, and that is unfortunately something you have to deal with. Why should a white, cis (can't stand the term) male be allowed to say that? Well, it seems perfectly ok to call Slavs primitive, it is perfectly ok to cast a wide net of here be dragons and primitive voodoo over all of Eastern Europe, and at the same time, as a Serb, I can't get past the 'shit that happened in the 90s' which had nothing to do with me, or most of the 10 million Serbs alive. However, I get that, it seems perfectly culturally acceptable, and guess what? I don't give a shit - your unfounded opinions are exactly that, yours. If you feel like belittling my cultural background is going to affect me, you are so, so wrong.
I am very glad that when I went to university this SJW wave didn't exist as strongly as it does now. The last time I opined on Pride blocking cops (to which I said isn't really in the spirit of inclusion - Pride's motto) - I was called a fascist, white supremacist, oligarch. I take offense to the two former, but I wish I could be an oligarch.. Dreams..
In fact this whole discourse is based on excluding people from the conversation if they don't fit some checkboxes nobody has ever seen. This is a great way to get the wider community on your side...
I'm a strong believer in personal choices and accepting consequences for your actions (or lack thereof). Those consequences are almost always the result of your actions, and you have to learn to deal with them as a learning opportunity. I don't get the feeling that the instigators from Pride or BLM understand this bit...